Finished another journal page: this one is about hobbies and had to include:

• how many hobbies or what hobbies have you had over the years?
• what is your earliest recollection of doing anything crafty?
• include some kind of hand made embellishment

Wow – where do I start with this one – I have had a lot of hobbies and most of them were some kind of sport.  I dabbled in gymnastics, ballet and tennis as a youngster.  Athletics soon took over for quite a few years then motorcycle sidecar racing for a few years.  I then started athletics again just to keep fit and also had a go at judo and modern dance.  Next came weight training which I kept up for many years with a little dabble at wheelchair basketball. I have to watch what I am doing these days so I now consider my main hobbies to be gardening, cooking, reading and crafting.  My first recollections of crafting are making paper chains and pom-poms, rub-ons (transfers), toilet paper flowers, papier mache bowls and finger knitting.  There were loads more but I remember those in particular.

Card:  white card painted with green and red paint, bits of black and white too
Stamps: Tim Holtz mini muse
Other:  bottle cap, red UTEE, heart cookie cutter, glossy accents, dragonfly punch, Stencil The crafters workshop Circle Circle Dot Dot, white pen, gold pen, punchinella, crackle glaze